4 T20's and 1 ODI is hardly any big match practice coming after 6/7 months of little cricket and bench warming. And he couldn't convert those starts because he was trying to attack while being the more aggresive opener batting with Gambhir.

You don't need to much practice for ODI's tbh, it's different for test matches but if you can't get going in ODI's after a few games then there's something wrong.

because he missed a few ranji matches? lol. I think not letting him go for Ranji matches was stupid, but him not getting selected isn't too much of a big deal to me, the only legitimate slot was in place of Rahane to open which they gave to Rohit for some ******** reason.

With a 4 Test series against Australia on the horizon surely Pujara and Rahane would have been better served playing in the Ranji trophy than travelling around India serving drinks for the ODI side?